Join Gayathiri Kamalakanthan in this free and BSL interpreted session on how to edit your poems and get them submission ready.
Editing your poems for the Disabled Poets Prize 2025
This workshop for D/deaf and disabled writers.
Join Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, winner of the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 Best Single Poem, in this relaxed workshop where we’ll be looking at different ways to approach editing. We’ll think about editing the line, playing with form, performance as an editing tool and how we might decide a piece is ‘ready’.
Who is the workshop for?
The workshop is for open to all D/deaf and disabled writers. It is timed so that if you are considering submitting to the Disabled Poets Prize 2025 Best Single Poem or Best Unpublished Pamphlet categories, you can use it to get your work into the best shape.
Access
- BSL interpreted
- Captions
- Relaxed space
- Any workshop pre-reading sent through in advance
- Recording of workshop available to participants for a fortnight after the event
If you have any other access requirements, please contact Tom MacAndrew at [email protected]
About the Disabled Poets Prize
The UK’s Disabled Poets Prize was launched in 2023 and looks to find the best work created by UK-based deaf and disabled poets. Set up by Jamie Hale, the Jerwood Poetry Fellow 2021-22 and award-winning poet, the Disabled Poets Prize is a collaboration between Spread the Word, Verve Poetry Press, and CRIPtic Arts in partnership with The Literary Consultancy and Arvon Foundation. Deaf and disabled poets face significant barriers to developing their careers. The Disabled Poets Prize brings the work of the winning writers to new prominence, focusing attention on the exceptional work being produced by deaf and disabled writers. It is the first poetry prize in the UK specifically for deaf and disabled poets.
The 2025 Disabled Poets Prize is supported by the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS).
For more information on submitting to the 2025 Disabled Poets Prize: www.disabledpoetsprize.org.uk
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan
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Gayathiri is a Tamil poet and performer. They are interested in how language shapes adolescence and how we might use it to queer the future. Gayathiri won the Disabled Poets Prize 2024 and their work has been published in bath magg, Propel and Magma. They run WORD-BENDERS, a poetry workshop centering queer poets of colour, supported by fourteen poems. Gayathiri's novel-in-verse is forthcoming with Faber.